Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
I was very happy to receive an email from Emily Lee Phillips the other day asking if I would permit her to put a link to Barnabas Quotidianus on her blog.
Would I permit? Well that was a no-brainer!
I rushed over to Emily’s blog, Leaves in the Wind, and found myself entranced by a fascinating and [...]
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I was at a reception on the evening of Monday 28 April hosted by the Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP to celebrate the introduction of the new Equality Bill into the House of Commons.
Amongst her other government offices, Harriet Harman is Minister for Women and Equality. Together with Maria Eagle MP and Vera Baird [...]
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National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the UK, elected at the UK National Baha’i Convention, 2009
I attend many meetings and conferences in the course of my working life, but none of them come near the National Baha’i Convention for flow and maturity of consultation.
This is where 95 delegates elected by Baha’is locally across the [...]
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So this was yesterday’s walk in our local Hertfordshire woodland with our 3 year old grandson. The sun lit up the leaves and trees, the whole wood, and our grandson found lots of fascinating things to inspect – as 3 year olds will.
Tomorrow
Tomorrow is a packed day. Equality and Diversity Forum meeting all morning. Meeting [...]
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I was pleased to see that the print version of Radio Times for 18–24 April has a double-page feature about British-Iranian actor and comedian Omid Djalili costuming up as Henry VIII for the new series of The Omid Djalili Show (BBC1 Monday 10:35pm, beginning on 20 April).
Omid, who is a member of the UK Baha’i [...]
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More on the story I posted yesterday about the Ministerial decree that allows Egyptian citizens who are neither Muslims, Christians nor Jews, to put a dash in the religion space on official documents. This brings relief to the Egyptian Baha’is who have been struggling for years to obtain the ID cards they are legally required [...]
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Today (14 April) the Egyptian law gazette published a Ministerial decree announcing that from tomorrow anyone who doesn’t belong to one of Egypt’s three official religions (Islam, Judaism, Christianity) can obtain official documents, such as birth certificates or ID cards, with a dash in the space for religion.
This is a triumph for the civil rights [...]
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Today’s New York Times online has a fascinating article about the growing utility of Twitter. It’s well worth reading whether you are on Twitter or not or whether you “get” Twitter or not.
Individually, many of those 140-character “tweets” seem inane.
But taken collectively, the stream of messages can turn Twitter into a surprisingly useful tool for [...]
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Barnabas’ shelf of books about writing
What’s the difference between Rod Duncan and Barnabas?
Rod’s a published novelist. Barnabas is a dreaming wannabe.
I have a couple of shelves of books about writing – books about how to write novels, how to write poetry, how to write for TV, you name it… But like most of those who [...]
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A little light in the gloom of the situation of the Baha’is in Iran.
Iran Press Watch reports that three young Baha’is in the Iranian city of Hamadan were released from detention yesterday. However, one Baha’i youth remains in custody and the other three are out on bail and can be recalled to detention at any [...]
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